Mote Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1986. House.
Mote Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pillar-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mote Cottage, Maldon Road, Bradwell-On-Sea
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 053
- Coordinates
- 51.71213, 0.86453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mote Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is timber framed and weatherboarded, featuring double range grey slate roofs and two red brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and a first floor with a three-window arrangement of two-light vertically sliding sash windows, each with moulded surrounds, brackets, and pelmets, except for the central single-light window. The ground floor has similar windows on the left and right, as well as a central panelled door with a fanlight above. Mote Cottage was once the home of the author S.L. Bensusan.
Local climate
Mote Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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